Monday, April 29, 2019

A NOVEL WAY TO EXPERIENCE THE OLD MASTERS

The creative team of Jeff Koons and Louis Vuitton have combined their talents to give us "a novel way to experience the old masters."

They have reproduced old master paintings on the side of $4,000 Louis Vuitton handbags.  According to the creators, this "invites viewers to consider these works anew, opening the museum to the world."



Jeff Koons further explains, "When somebody walks down the street with this bag, or sits in a cafe with this bag, it's communicating a love of humanism."

Each handbag has been "emblazoned with the name of the original artist spelled out in gold letters." This feature is not even available on the original painting in the museum!

The creators also improved on the painting by attaching Louis Vuitton's signature flower symbols and  Monogram logo, then went the extra mile by creating a new version of the Vuitton logo incorporating Jeff Koons' initials.



As if these advances weren't enough, the restless creative minds of Koons and Vuitton have added "a tag in the silhouette of one of Koons' best-known artworks, the inflatable Rabbit sculpture."


While I am thrilled beyond measure by these new inspirations, still I must question whether the effect of these handbags is truly "novel."  I believe you can create the exact same impression by wearing one of these:



Saturday, April 20, 2019

WHAT DO THESE 70 ILLUSTRATIONS HAVE IN COMMON?


Dean Cornwell

Skidmore
James Montgomery Flagg
Pruett Carter

Gruger
Harrison Fisher


















                            










Charles Mitchell













































Richard Flanagan






  






Answer: they were all in a typical issue of Cosmopolitan magazine in the 1920s.  (In this case, September 1923).